Tiny Pretty Things

What would you do to be the best? TINY PRETTY THINGS digs beneath the practiced poise of a cutthroat Manhattan ballet academy, where three girls, Gigi, Bette, and June, all fight for the prima position while navigating secrets, lies, and the pressure that comes with being prodigies. Novel coming Summer 2015 from Harper Teen

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Julliard student Mikaela Kelly shot by Kenneth Edwards

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American Ballet Theatre dancer Courtney Lavinelooking, photo by James Whiteside.

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Studio Life: Pointe, flex, repeat.

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Iana Salenko modeling for Designed by Alice 

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Sylvie Guillem 

Photo © Laurie Lewis

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Vicktoria Tereshkina in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mariinsky Ballet, London, Royal Opera House, August 2014. © Dave Morgan.

Tereshkina has a warm personality and this enhances her dancing. She has long thin limbs and offers expansive port de bras, while her legs whip up effortlessly but with control. Here, in the role of Titania, her dancing was light and lyrical, her back supple and graceful so that her movement seemed liquid with its ease and fluidity. She demonstrates much joy in her dancing and is a pleasure to watch.

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Hortense Pajtler- Paris Opera Ballet School student for Repetto photo © La Maison Repetto

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Beautiful black and white photos from the Instagram account of Opera de Paris. Top to bottom: Francois Alu, Laura Hecquet, and Amandine Albisson

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Studio Life: Post-rehearsal stretch.

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Evgenia Obraztsova

© Mark Olich

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Life of a Dancer: Pointe shoe ribbon.

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Bolshoi’s Giselle

Photo by Ekaterina Vladimirova

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Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside - American Ballet Theatre

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Christoper Wheeldon, Concerto Concordia

Anna Tsygankova

ph. Angela Sterling

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Svetlana Zakharova in Plus Minus Zero

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Erika Crawford (photo by Lindsay Thomas)

via Dance Spirit FB

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“You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” -Ingrid Silva

Photo Credit: Alex Logaiski